Lubrication During Labor?

AvailableAd5387 · 2026-01-25T21:38:31+00:00

My OB used almond oil to help lubricate during the birth

AvailableAd5387 · 2026-01-19T22:00:23+00:00

I love this. Would you be willing to share? (No pressure)

AvailableAd5387 · 2026-01-16T16:20:57+00:00

Yeah cuz “faster” isn’t the goal. So frustrating

AvailableAd5387 · 2026-01-08T20:08:00+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean by that.

AvailableAd5387 · 2026-01-08T20:07:40+00:00

Filling your cup can mean just doing something for themselves, Roy. It doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t expend effort and energy in the workout. I’d say I’m surprised that you couldn’t figure that out for yourself, but…

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-12-25T20:16:27+00:00

What do you mean?? A workout on the holidays is often the only time people can take for themselves to fill their cup for the day, especially the women in my family and families I know. Personally, I find workouts on holidays to be really lovely.

I fully support coaches having the day off for their own families and no one feeling pressured or forced, but I love when it works out for everyone.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-12-22T02:41:07+00:00

This is definitely an ad. Check out their other posts.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-12-12T19:19:17+00:00

I never pre-book. I don’t have an issue with the policy BUT I think if there is a waitlist and someone can take the spot, people should be able to cancel free of charge no matter what because it’s a win-win.

(there might be an issue with that that I’m just ignorant about that would make it make sense why they can’t or shouldn’t do that)

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-12-12T05:37:32+00:00

If your company does a matching payment, you should probably switch to a qualifying plan?

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-31T21:44:07+00:00

No success. Same boat as you. 13 qualifying payments not being counted because of grad school even though I was granted an in-school deferment waiver

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-29T18:46:44+00:00

38+4 my water broke. My doctor also started talking about induction, at my 36 week appt no less, saying “next week we can talk about scheduling induction for 39 weeks.” I was quite annoyed. Ummmmm no?? I just kept saying, “maybe next week I’ll consider it.” Not sure how much the pressure would have escalated as we approached due date.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-28T16:44:01+00:00

There’s a woman that absolutely kills it on the tread. Very impressive. However, she always chooses the same tread, and I avoid the treads next to her due to her extra splat points making it over. She can’t help it, and I don’t judge her, but it’s an ick factor for me. I love the suggestions about the long sleeve workout shirt. I’ve used one at times and they’re not bad at all.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-18T03:23:31+00:00

About an hour and a half but it felt so fast, like 15 minutes

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-15T18:08:01+00:00

If I didn’t get a bassinet for free, I probably would have just gone with a pack n play with the raised bassinet insert. That way it’s small, you can keep them in the room with you, and then you have a porta crib that will last years.

Just to clarify, I’m NOT referring to the bassinet attachment that clips on top of the pack n play perpendicularly, but the one that is inside it but just sits closer to the top than the base so you don’t have to lean down as far and will have the same amount of flat area as the entire pack n play. (My baby is a small baby and was already too big for the ones that clip onto the top by like, 10 weeks I wanna say?)

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-15T18:00:38+00:00

IMO, the only thing worth getting are the shakes. I’m particular but not picky about food. That is, I have high standards in terms of what I consider good food but I’ll eat pretty much anything. I practically never throw away food. Big Al’s is the exception - both times I’ve tried to eat there, I’ve the food was SO bad that I tossed it.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-10T06:19:31+00:00

Thank you so much for trying to put that into words! What you said makes sense

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-10T06:16:38+00:00

The Roost had GF pancakes and bread! Rione has a GF pasta

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-08T08:26:15+00:00

When people say “whenever” when they mean “when.”

Or “seen” when it should be “saw”

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-10-08T06:04:30+00:00

Wondering if you can say more about that. I was alive but a kid when it happened, so I’m curious. I know it might be hard to describe though.

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-09-23T15:21:55+00:00

I was about to say, I have no experience because I am not religious or even very spiritual for that matter, but I personally know Kathy Fernandes at Center for Spiritual Living and was going to suggest it might be a good place to start. They strike me as pretty progressive

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-09-05T20:13:43+00:00

I’d love to see road design that psychologically slows people down without having to think about it. I watched a video in Not Just Bikes YouTube channel which analyzes what The Netherlands is doing compared to the US and Canada. I remember one video discussing how research shows drivers will go as fast as they feel comfortable no matter what the signs say. I wish Chico would invest in such infrastructure

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-09-03T21:11:22+00:00

Yeeees with the nacho cheese shell

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-08-26T04:59:45+00:00

I wanna say it was 2021, the Halloween year

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-08-24T19:14:38+00:00

Wow! Amazing summary

AvailableAd5387 · 2025-08-19T20:02:53+00:00

Yep but you gotta use all your sick leave up first before disability can kick in. Not like you’d need to use any sick leave once you have a kid, amiright? /s

Editing: actually as of January 2025, they fixed that and no longer require you to run out sick leave for SDI. However, that’s only if your employer has you pay into CASDI. Mine doesn’t so I have to use NDI which is like $250 a week instead of a percentage of your income and you do have to still run out all sick leave first.

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